J 4 5 I ' 31 6 c S9 are sand graIns on every beach in the world," he said. He held up a small object in his right hand, identified it as a meteorite, and swung into a discus- sion of meteors, whose origin is, he said, often unknown "These chunks of star stuff have a history as strange and mysterious as anything in the realm of science," he said. Y1r. Coles' perora- tion was strange if not, under the cir- cumstances, mysterious. "When Coty was considering the name for a per- fume," he said, "a perfume that itself is mysterious-I'm told the science of per- fume is mysterious beyond description- what could be more appropriate than to reach out into the universe for the name Meteor?" Meteor, we mused as we watched a star-shaped box containing ï five-hun- dred-dollar bottle of it open up under the . infl uence of a cosmic ray directed by a Geiger counter (Mr. Coles explained that this was what was happening), just cannot be that mysterious. Mr. Whalen may not know its ingredients, but we bet Mr. Cortney and Mr. Cotnareanu do. And as we gazed admiringly at a ballet in which a star-spangled young man, after many a teasing gesture, handed the Dottle to a young lady clad in what we took to be cosmic dust, we marvelled at a marriage of science and '-' industrJ that could make a museum smell so sweet. During an ensuing cock- tail party (we had a MartIni under Mars), we asked Ylr. Whalen how come. AlJ he told us was "They wanted a company man to make the speech, but I thought a scientist would be much better. " On our return to our office, still J _ r,IUJffY1 seeking enlightenment, we looked up "Hayden Planetarium" in the T17 orid A lJrlanac. The index directed us to page 160, but there was nothing about the Planetarium there. Persevering, we found it on page 166. The entry reads, in part, "The Hayden Planetarium played d vital role in World War II by adapting its unique facilities to celes- tial navigation instructIon. WIth the end of the conflict the Planetarium recon- verted immediately to peacetime activ- . " p ., d fl Ity. eace It S won er u . . S IGN in front of a home In Van Nu} , California: FOR SALE SIAl\lESE CATS BEAUTIFUL AND INTELLIGENT THE CAD ILl AC OF CATS